Intended to help remedy the glaring incompleteness or
inaccessibility in many parts of the world of data on the
nutrient composition of foods, this book makes available for the
first time a comprehensive standardization of nomenclature for
international nutrient data exchange. It provides a
straightforward set of rules for identifying food components
precisely and constructing data bases suitable for transfer
between computers.

Knowledge of the composition of the foods eaten around the
world is of critical importance for research and policy in public
health, dietetics, and nutrition. Data on food composition,
however, are extremely inadequate. 1-his volume, examining the
current problems of the field and what is needed to improve the
situation, provides an essential introduction and survey of the
subject for anyone who will be involved in gathering, compiling,
or using food composition data It will be a useful reference for
university courses of' food and nutrition.

A comprehensive manual of anthropological methodologies
applicable to field studies in nutrition, this volume describes
strategies of field research in nutritional anthropology,
determinants and cultural components of food intake, methods for
collecting and analysing data on energy expenditures, and
statistical methods for nutritional anthropology.

Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition- With Emphasis on
Psychosocial and Behavioural Aspects and Implications for
Developmentby Marian Zeitlin, Hossein Ghassemi, and
Mohamed Mansour

Children who grow and develop well in environments where most
children suffer malnutrition and chronic illness provide valuable
examples to guide the design of programmes aimed at the
malnourished. The book examines successful interactions between
care-giver and child and the social support systems that sustain
them and offers goals and guidance for future research.

Methods for the Evaluation of the Impact of Food and
Nutrition ProgrammesEdited by David E. Sahn, Richard Lockwood,
and Nevin S. Scrimshaw

This state-of-the-art discussion of methods for evaluating
food and nutrition programmes focuses primarily on determining
specific nutritional impact, even in circumstances where adequate
baseline data are not available. It recognizes also that food and
nutrition programmes can have beneficial effects going beyond
traditional health impacts and gives specific attention to
social, economic, behavioural, and political consequences that
may accompany a feeding programme.

Concentrating on the experiences of developing countries, this
book advocates the effective communication of nutrition and
health information as a key component of primary health care. It
provides a framework for evaluating nutrition communications
needs, methodological guidelines, and suggestions for programme
evaluation.

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